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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 268–282.
Published: 01 September 2004
...Zachariah Pickard Copyright © Hofstra University 2004 BAI
Natural History and Epiphany:
Elizabeth Bishop’s Darwin Letter
Zachariah Pickard
riting in his Autobiography about the joys of beetle collecting and,
particularly, the pleasure of discovering a new...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Oliver Harris Copyright © Hofstra University 2000 Cold War Correspondents: Ginsberg,
Kerouac, Cassady, and the Political
Economy of Beat Letters
O liver H arris
n June 23, 1953, an aspiring poet employed as a copyboy for the New
York World Telegram...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (1): 119–127.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Jennifer P. Nesbitt Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture and the Emergence of Postcolonial Aesthetics , by Kalliney Peter J. , Oxford University Press , 2013 . 336 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2014 Review
Commonwealth of Letters: British Literary Culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2021) 67 (4): 483–490.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Timothy J. Materer A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill . Edited by Hammer Langdon Yenser Stephen . New York : Knopf , 2021 . 723 pages. Copyright © 2021 Hofstra University 2021 The publisher’s blurb for A Whole World: Letters from James Merrill states that Merrill...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (1): 34–53.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Tonje Vold Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Tonje Vold
How to “rise above mere nationality”:
Coetzee’s Novels Youth and Slow Man
in the World Republic of Letters
Tonje Vold
J. M. Coetzee’s work presents critical reflections on literature that
circulate beyond their culture...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 June 2012
...Donald A. Daiker The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907–1922 , edited by Spanier Sandra and Trogdon Robert W. , Cambridge University Press , 2011 . 431 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2012 Review
“I sure like to get letters”
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1907...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (2): 369–376.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Christopher J. Knight The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927 , Edited by Eliot Valerie and Haffenden John , Yale University Press , 2012 . 954 pages. © 2015 by Hofstra University 2013 Review
The Letters of T. S. Eliot, Volume 3: 1926–1927
Edited by Valerie...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Jeffrey Gutierrez © 2023 Hofstra University 2023 I have a slight bone to pick. One of my letters to you was exhibited last month in Widener [Library] and cost me two hours’ rage. If a possibility exists that anything of the sort will happen at any time in the future, I would like...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 431–462.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Frances Dickey The over one thousand letters from T. S. Eliot to Emily Hale, opened to the public on January 2, 2020, reveal the poet’s emotional and creative dependence on Hale and illuminate the meanings of “Gerontion,” The Waste Land , Ash-Wednesday , “Landscapes,” Murder in the Cathedral , Four...
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“My Trespass Vision”: Disability, Sexuality, and Nationality in Hart Crane’s Versions of “The Idiot”
Twentieth-Century Literature (2016) 62 (1): 56–74.
Published: 01 March 2016
...Paul Bradley Bellew American modernist Hart Crane’s poem “The Idiot” details the poet’s real-life encounters with a young man with a cognitive disability. Beginning in 1926, Crane worked on the poem through different versions through letters, manuscripts, and magazine publications until about 1932...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 427–450.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Fiona Green This article focuses on the poems Marianne Moore wrote during and between visits to Virginia in the mid-1930s that were published in The Pangolin and Other Verse (1936). Prompted by an exchange of letters between Moore and Ezra Pound in 1935, the essay considers relationships between...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (4): 451–474.
Published: 01 December 2017
...Edward Allen With reference to a vinyl record, some unpublished letters, and a series of reading scripts, this essay reconstructs the circumstances of a trip Marianne Moore made to Harvard in December 1941. Her trip to Cambridge followed closely in the wake of Roosevelt’s declaration of war...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 March 2023
...Christopher Patrick Miller Hart Crane’s lyrics abound with transient figures who often doubt their intelligibility or viability as persons, and his letters reflect a significant anxiety about his own ability to communicate the problems he experienced in being and remaining intelligible to others...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 283–316.
Published: 01 September 2004
... on the contemporary novel tends to be anthologized
along with the many letters, essays, polemics, and apologies that emerged
from his confrontation with Henry James indicates how unwilling
twentieth-century literary criticism has been to endorse his objectives
for the novel, preferring...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 29–52.
Published: 01 March 2023
....” 11 In 1965’s “Convergence,” Ammons is quicker to show his skepticism toward the “capable” ( CP 1:475) self. There, the poem’s unnamed protagonist “stood capable / poised / on the peak of / illusion’s pyramid.” 3 As Kevin McGuirk indicates in his edition of Ammons’s journals and letters...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
...Linda Leavell Copyright © Hofstra University 2003 Marianne Moore,
the James Family,
and the Politics of Celibacy
Linda Leavell
ot long before she died, Marianne Moore received a letter, a form
letter, requesting her signature on the following statement: “I have had...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... of
Birthday Letters. We might even see England’s former poet laureate, or the
author of such well-known works as “The Thought-Fox,” “Thistles,” and
Crow. Even the academically invested, approaching the book with special
ized knowledge, are likely to bring with them a set of associations...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2017) 63 (3): 299–328.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Stop at the End of ‘Ithaca’: Thirteen Ways—and Then Some—of Looking at a Black Dot .” Joyce Studies Annual 7 , no. 4 : 125 – 44 . Daybell James . 2012 . The Material Letter in Early Modern England: Manuscript Letters and the Culture and Practices of Letter-Writing, 1512–1635 . New York...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (1): 1–30.
Published: 01 March 2008
...Siobhan Phillips Copyright © Hofstra University 2008 Wallace Stevens and the Mode of the Ordinary
Siobhan Phillips
twentieth-century poet attended more to daily routine than did
Wallace Stevens.1 From a 1927 letter that outlines his schedule (Collected
941) to a 1955...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (4): 487–507.
Published: 01 December 2002
....
Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), a stockholder in the Dial since 1918,
bought the magazine out in November 1919. On 22 October 1922 he
made the following proposition in a letter to his close friend Alyse Gre
gory:
Twentieth-Century Literature 48.4 Winter 2002 487
Barbara Ozieblo
[A]llow me...
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